86 California Job Cuts Hit Salesforce Layoffs Across AI and Cloud Teams
Salesforce layoffs hit 86 jobs in California in a new round of cuts that spread across Agentforce AI, Mulesoft, and Marketing Cloud. The filing shows the company is trimming roles in product and technology areas, not just in one back-office function. For employees tied to those teams, the cuts point to a wider reset inside Salesforce as it pushes its own AI products.
California WARN filing
A WARN notice in California listed 86 Salesforce job cuts, including sales, general administration, and technology and product roles. That is the clearest hard number in this round, and it gives affected workers a state-level count rather than a companywide estimate. The notice also shows the layoffs reached more than one part of the organization.
Agentforce and Mulesoft
The cuts touched employees working on Agentforce AI, Mulesoft, and Marketing Cloud. That mix matters because it spans the company’s AI push, its integration software, and its marketing business in one pass. Salesforce has been developing its own AI offerings as a response to investor concern that AI models, tools, and agents could replace some traditional software, including its core customer relationship-management product.
January’s smaller round
This latest reduction follows a smaller move in January, when Salesforce eliminated fewer than 1,000 roles. By the end of January, the company had more than 80,000 employees, according to an SEC filing. The latest cuts therefore do not look like a one-off adjustment inside a tiny unit; they land after a larger workforce base and after an earlier reduction that was already material in size.
The backdrop is mixed. Salesforce’s stock was down more than 30% this year, while the company reported last month that Agentforce annualized revenue had passed $1 billion. That leaves a gap between the revenue milestone and the low-use concerns reported in November, when Agentforce adoption was described as relatively low and its capabilities as falling short of the company’s demos.
For workers and customers watching the product lineup, the practical read is straightforward: Salesforce is still betting on AI, but it is doing so while cutting roles around the products meant to defend that bet. Salesforce did not respond to requests for comment, so the immediate questions now are whether the cuts stop at 86 in California or extend further, and whether the company will pair them with more details on how Agentforce, Mulesoft, and Marketing Cloud teams will be staffed going forward.
